a recording of a contact call that crane parents make for their chicks. Whooping cranes were almost extinct — until Canadian ornithologist George Archibald learned to dance with them In the ...

This story appears in the June 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. Nearly grazing the treetops, a tiny red plane swoops in dizzying circles over the bogs and forests of Canada's Wood ...

Crane Trust officials say they've never seen such a big jump in numbers of cranes arriving in Nebraska for the spring migration.

The whooping crane is a 5-foot-tall bird with snow-white plumage and a deep red cap and black wing tips. It is the tallest bird in North America and also one of the rarest birds in North America.

The recent deaths of an estimated 1,500 sandhill cranes in Indiana due to bird flu has increased concerns for endanagered ...

“That’s not right.” The whooping crane shootings Nov. 6 near the Quivira National Wildlife Refuge devastated wildlife advocates. The high-profile bird is seen by many as the American ...

To delay alerting the public, the Service omitted the whooping crane proposal from its public-facing workplan ... which included an internal communications strategy used for “high-profile or ...

Thousands of people from across the world have gathered in Port Aransas for a rare opportunity to observe the endangered whooping crane during the 28th annual Whooping Crane Festival this weekend.

WASHINGTON— Buried in the Biden administration’s unified regulatory agenda released last week is a plan by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to weaken or end protections for several iconic species, ...